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Honeywell Scanning & Mobility USB Serial Driver
Getting Started
The Honeywell Scanning & Mobility (HSM) USB Serial Driver is a CDC ACM driver that exposes HSM USB scanners as as
a virtual COM port to the operating system and applications.
Installing the HSM USB Serial Driver
1. Physically detach all currently attached scanners from target machine.
2. If this is the initial installation of the HSM USB Serial Driver on your machine, then skip to step 3. Otherwise you
will need to:
• Determine and perform a manual uninstall, if necessary, in addition to the normal uninstall to cleanup of any
leftover driver items.
o To determine and perform a manual cleanup if necessary, please consult the “HSM USB Serial
Driver - Clean up Old non WHQL Driver Install.pdf”.
o To uninstall currently installed driver – locate and browse to the location in which the current
installed driver’s installation files were extracted to. Follow the steps described in the “Uninstalling
the HSM USB Serial Driver” section below to complete the uninstall.
• Once uninstall and manual cleanup are complete continue on to step 3 to install.
3. Extract the driver files and identify the two different types of installs supported:
• Install_86.bat – For installing on a 32-bit Operating System.
• Install_64.bat – For installing on a 64-bit Operating System.
Note: When installing on Windows® Vista or Windows 7 Operating Systems, you must have Administrator privileges or
you will be prompted for an Administrator password.
4. To run the install, browse to the location to which you extracted your driver files, right click the appropriate install
.bat file, and select “Run as administrator” (Note for Windows XP, just double-click on appropriate .bat file).
5. Connect one of the supported devices. The driver autoinstalls for the device.
Uninstalling the HSM USB Serial Driver
1. In the folder to which the driver files were extracted, identify the two different types of uninstalls supported:
• Uninstall_86.bat – For uninstalling on a 32-bit Operating System.
• Uninstall_64.bat – For uninstalling on a 64-bit Operating System.
Note: When uninstalling on Windows Vista or Windows 7 Operating Systems, you must have Administrator privileges
or you will be prompted for an Administrator password.
2. To run the un-install, browse to the location to which you extracted your driver files, right click the appropriate
uninstall .bat file, and select “Run as administrator” (Note for Windows XP, just double-click on appropriate
.bat file).
Configuring the HSM USB Serial Driver for Force COM Port
The Force COM Port feature of the HSM USB Serial driver allows a user to specify a particular COM port that an installed
device will be assigned rather than having a COM port assigned via the standard Windows mechanism (Windows finds the
next available COM port). This forced COM port value will be based on the settings of a shared global forced COM port
list. This global forced COM port list is comprised of 2 parts:
• PID based list – Contains up to 4 forced COM port values based on a unique PID value of device (device
MUST report the serial number to be in this list).